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Kōrero: Women and men

Making New Zealand

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Making New Zealand

The link between men and work was taken for granted. This 1938 advertisement encourages use of New Zealand-made goods and features a blacksmith hammering out an ‘NZ’. However, despite the overwhelming masculinity of the image, the goods listed were made by both men and women.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Herald

Reference: 20 August 1938, p. 11

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Parallel worlds: mid-20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/29232/making-new-zealand (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charlotte Macdonald, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.